UW-Oshkosh to shut down Fox Cities campus amid enrollment plunge

Universities of Wisconsin officials plan to close another two-year school in the face of declining enrollment, this time in the Fox Cities. UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced Thursday that in-person learning at the school’s two-year branch campus in Menasha will end after the spring 2025 semester. The Menasha campus’ website said before Leavitt’s announcement that the school serves 1,367 students. Leavitt said during the video conference that UW schools don’t subsidize each other and that declining enrollment, not UW-Oshkosh’s deficit, was the sole driver of the decision to close the Menasha campus. UW system officials have closed or announced plans to close five other two-year branch campuses around the state since 2023, including UW-Oshkosh’s campus in Fond du Lac.